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Tortured by skinheads on a camping trip to Georgia, a legless Latino war vet escapes and fabricates lethal bladed legs to save his friends.
SYNOPSIS:
JUAN comes home from Afghanistan bitter after losing his lower legs. His wife and two friends take him on a road trip through rural Georgia for R&R. But the peaceful road adventure doesn't go as planned.
They unwittingly camp behind a secluded farmstead where MANKILL and his gang of Harley-riding skinheads—who threatened them earlier at a roadside cafe—congregate late at night to eat and party.
Frightened, they decide to sneak away in the dark of the night. Juan and EMILIO go to move the Harleys blocking their exit. They recon the farmhouse and are mortifiedly what they see--skinheads dining on roasted human body parts.
They race back to camp only to find their wives have disappeared. They go looking for them, but are caught by the skinheads and tortured. Mankill smashes Juan’s prostheses, leaving him legless. However, they manage to escape, but run out of gas and Emilio is recaptured, Juan hides in the swamp.
Juan crawls back to the farmstead to save Emilio--but how, with no legs? He hides behind an old cultivator in despair, then gets an idea. He makes new legs from the cultivator's spring-toothed tines using tools in the machine shed.
He’s now deadly with scythe-like legs and goes into slashing action. He saves Emilio from a hanging. Together, they find their wives being tortured and react with combat fury: Emilio flinging rotary saw blades like Frisbees into their throats, Juan harpooning them with his leg blades, the wives making a stand with pitchforks.
They finally escape in their car, Mankill and remaining skinheads hot on their bumper. They break free of Spooky Holler, then run out of gas, yet again. Bikers surround them; but, strangely, these are Veterans riding for a good cause who give them gas to carry on.
Suddenly, we segue to a Florida beach. Juan et al are laying on the beach wearing Simul-Reality goggles (introduced but rejected by Juan in a beginning scene). Removing them, they are confused for a moment then realize it was all a “virtual” nightmare — or was it?
Juan looks down and sees he is wearing the leg blades he made in Simul-Reality! A three-legged dog that saved him twice in Simul-Reality is there, too! Their wedding rings are missing! Emilio is beside himself for an explanation. Is there a glitch in the program?
Juan and Emilio go back into Simul-Reality to find out what happened.
The last image on the screen is Mankill’s angry face waiting for them. We hear a radio somewhere on the beach announcing a breaking news bulletin about white separatists found gruesomely murdered on a farm in Georgia and an SUV with four Latinos seen leaving the scene. An APB has been issued for them.
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